Podbit · The Rest Is Politics: US
Kara Swisher drew a direct line between Stephen Miller and the bureaucrat who engineered Japanese-American internment — both powered by singular, evidence-free hatred of immigrants. She recommends Rachel Maddow's Burn Order podcast as the template for understanding how this happens.
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The episode's most explosive moment arrives quietly, as Scaramucci reads Alito's dissent logic back to its logical conclusion [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslo…" 36:35 . The sole-allegiance-at-birth test Alito proposed — that citizenship at birth requires the parent to owe sole allegiance to the United States — would disqualify Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. entirely: their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen when they were born. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno, both prominent Trump allies, would face the same fate. Scaramucci notes that Trump's team tried to draft the executive order with surgical exceptions for cases like his children's, but Alito's dissent went further than the executive order intended. Swisher and Scaramucci find this darkly clarifying: the policy isn't about immigration integrity, it's about keeping certain people out of the electorate. 'It solves that these people will probably be Democrats,' Swisher says flatly. Everything, in the end, is about stopping people from voting.
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have been U.S. citizens — their mother Ivana was Czechoslovakian. Marco Rubio and Bernie Moreno would've been in the same boat. Trump tried to surgically write the executive order around his own family.
Under Alito's sole-allegiance-at-birth test, Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr. would not have qualified as citizens because their mother Ivana was a Czechoslovakian citizen at the time of their births.
Factories that replaced coal engines with electric ones in the early 1900s got only 6% efficiency gains. Those that redesigned their entire factory around electricity got a 3x productivity improvement. Swapping AI tools into your existing structure will give you 6%. Rebuilding around AI will give you 10x.
Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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